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H. E. SMITH d Corn Sheller and Grain Fan.

Combine Patented Jany 18, 1859.

N PETERS fivmm-mlm m cwr. Washington. D c

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICF.

IIARUL'IUN 1*]. SMITH, 0F lltlhADhlLllllA, lllNNSYLYANIA, ASSIGNUIL TU HIMSELF, AND D. 1%. NELSON, OF (JOR'LLANJY (UUXTL NEW YOLK, AND JNU. l4. MYERS, (ll ttlll lMUNt-t COUNTY. Nl l'll' .Ytbltli.

GRAIN-FAN AND Specification ot' Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that l. lltnuxrox IQ. ,turrn ot the 'it v and county ol' Philadelphia and 1 State of Pennsylvania. have inrenled a new and usel'ul (fomhination o." a (train-Fan and orn-Hheller; and I do herehy deelare the following to he a full. elear, and exact description ot the same. reterenre heing had to the aet-ompaIrvine drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My intention eonsists in arranging the spiked roller and slotted shield or eoneatty o'l a etn'n-sheller on the frame ol a grain tan, in respect to and in onihination with the siere l'r: me hlon'er and an ltltllllttl plane oi the said grain tan in the manner set forth hereafter so that the said sieve 'l l'itlllt hlower and inclined plane ot the said emwsludler may serve the purpose ol separating the (till from the shelled kernels ol' the corn. and the latter it'roin the ehalt and other relnse. there by Forming a maehine eapahle at either shelling corn or cleaning grain.

in order to enahle others to make and use my intention. I Will now n't'a-eed to describe its construction and operation.

011 reference to the accompanying dra\v ing, which forms a part o't' this speeitieatimi; Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved corn shelter and rain tan eomh'ined. Fig. 2, a ground plan ol: the same.

Similar letters: refer to similar parts in hoth views.

A represents a hox training. on the top of which in suitahle hoxes turns a shall I), and to the latter is secured the spiked roller (t.

I) is a slotted shield, attached at a, (t. to springs, one of which is situated on each side of and secured to the frame, so that the shield may yield from the roller to a limited extent.

E is the sieve frame, hun at the haek and front, by means of rods 7/, b, to staples secured to the opposite sides of the hex frame of the machine. To the sieve frame are attached three sieves 0. (Z and 2', the lowest having meshes so line, that the grain can not pass through them. An inclined plane (a is secured to the sieve frame. and is so situated as to receive the grain, which falls through an opening in the hopper F, a door f being arranged to slide underneath the hopper, so as to close or expose the opening OORN-SHELLER.

22,689, dated January 18. 1859.

at pleasure. t'nderneath the shield I), and attaehed to the frame, is another int-lined plane o, so situated. that the corn. dropping throu; 3h the slots ol the shield. and the strip ped e hs disrharged l'roul hetween the shield and the roller, shall slide down the plane onto the middle sie\e d.

(t is an ordinary tan hlower. partially in elosed Within a easing it. the hlasl heing direeled to the underside of the sieve 1/ h) a shell l and an int-lined plane .l. The upper end of the latt r terminates at a point helow the lower sieve r'. where it meets another in- (lined plane a. which series to direct the eot-kle and other r l'a e. \rhirh falls through the lowest sieve f. onto a platform p. \Vlllt'll is arranget'l to slide in and out o{ the frame.

It will he ohserred. that the shield l is extended upuard ahore the spiked roller. lhis is tor the purpose ol' t'lireetinn' the eohs ol eorn. plat-ed on the hopper it. into the spare hetn'een the roller and the shield. The hlt'nver is driven hr 1: hell. passing over the pulley L on the shall I). and the sieve frame is agitated h means of an eerentrie M. on the same shaft. artino in conjunction with the rods N and 1 and the hell erank levers 1 It is the main driving shatt. turning in suitahle hoxes on the frame, and motion is eonnnunieated from this shaft to the shaft B. through the intervention of the wheel 3 and pinion T.

In shelling eorn. the ears are placed in the hopper Z. .t'rom whenee they roll hetween the shield and the spiked roller. hr the combined action of which. the kernels are stripped from the eohs. a portion of the former dropping through the slots in the shield onto the inclined plane 5 another portion. with the stripped eohs. being discharged train the, end of the shield onto the same inclined plane, trom whence the whole pass onto the middle sieve 1/. the ehatl" heing blown out, the strimied (obs falling to the ground at the rear of the machine. and the kernels dropping. through the meshes of the sieve (7, onto the tinest sieve. I, thence onto the in elined plane d. rolling down the latte and tin-(nigh the opening b, to the ground in front of the machine.

hen used for cleansing grain, the latter is placed in the hopper F. from whence it till l'nlh. onto the inclined plane r, and thenre onto the upper sieve l'roln whence it pass s thr ugh the meshes to the middle sieve r/, when the ehati is blown out at the rear of the ninehine, the grain falling, through the meshes ol the middle sieve, onto the lower sieve I, through which the eoekle and other refuse. matter passes, while the grain rolls down the inelii'ied plane .I, and out at the opening It to the ground.

It will now be seen without further description that by the peculiar arrangement of the slotted shield D and spiked roller 0 in respect to the sieve frame E blower \lr and inclined plane J the machine can be used either for the shelling of corn or cleansing of grain.

I do not claim broadly combining a grain tan and a corn sheller in one instrument but I (ltlllll and desire to Htt'lll't Iry Letters Patent Arranging the spiked roller (l and the slotted shield l) ot a corn sheller on the frame of a grain tan in respect to and in combination with the sieve frame E blower (i and inclined plane J of the said grain tan in the manner herein described so that the said hlower sieve lrmne and inclined plane may serve the purpose of separating the robs from the shelled kernels of corn and the letter from the chaff and other refuse.

Tn testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification before two sulr scribing witnesses. r

HABIILTON E. SMITH. "itnesses:

'Hnnny I-Iowsozv, HORACE SEE. 

